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Where once felines reigned supreme, themed cafes featuring a wide variety of animals are popping up all over Japan, from countryside hideaways to cafes in high-end shopping districts. So far we've seen cat, rabbit, and owl cafes and they are becom...

The official GundamInfo YouTube channel began streaming a promotional video for the Gundam Build Fighters Try television anime series on Friday. The video includes Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean subtitles.

A preview has been posted for the upcoming three volume Futari Ecchi OVA based on Katsu Aki's newly manga, starting to be released starting with "Futari no First Christmas" October 10th. Yuichi Nakamura and Ayumi Tsunematsu voice the Onodas.

North American manga publisher Yen Press has announced that they have licensed Touya Mikanagi's Karneval, adapted into a 2013 anime that streamed from FUNimation. I am absolutely delighted to announce that Yen will begin releasing the gorgeous Kar...

The official site for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Akira Saso's orchestra-themed manga Maestro has posted a 35-second teaser to introduce its cast including Tori Matsuzaka as the protagonist Shinichi Kosaka and Toshiyuki Nishida as ...

Bandai Namco Games began streaming the first full trailer for Marvel Disk Wars: Avengers Ultimate Heroes Nintendo 3DS game on Thursday. The trailer features gameplay with the "Disk" system, which allows players to change characters at any time dur...

China certainly knows how to have fun with their vegetation. If they're not putting panties on peaches, they're growing gourds in the shape of various religious and political figures. China has a long history of making art and figures out of gourd...

There's nothing better the official Pokémon Company YouTube channel could have done than upload a Slowpoke reggae jam. Slowpoke's Japanese name is Yadon, and the official music video for "Donai Yanen Yadon" ("How You're a Slowpoke After All") is c...

In Japan, it's customary to celebrate the New Year with osechi, meals made of a large number of painstakingly prepared and beautifully presented small dishes. Traditionally, women would prepare all of the osechi for their families ahead of time, s...

Kenshin endures bloody battles in order to save Japan in September 13 film The official website for Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (Rurouni Kenshin: Densetsu no Saigo-hen), the second of two sequels to the live-action Rurouni Kenshin film, began...

'Durarara! ! ' Getting New Manga Posted by Chris Beveridge August 22, 2014 at 09:02 PM Durarara Volume 4 With the 13 completed and done volumes of the main Durarara! ! light novel series by Ryohgo Narita out there, it's no surprise that more manga...

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS has a cool feature built into it—the ability to listen to music from the game while the 3DS is in Sleep Mode. Director Masahiro Sakurai revealed the feature on Miiverse last night.

L. A. EigaFest Film Festival taking place September 12th to 14th It's the fourth year of the Japan Film Society hosting the LA EigaFest in an effort to bring more Japanese cinema to American fans. For those that don't really know what a film festi...

Pokemon Art Academy has been out in Japan and Europe for some time now. On October 24, it will finally be released in North America and in all US 3DS systems around the world. For those that are uninformed, Pokemon Art Academy teaches you to draw ...

The Nintendo 3DS version of Dragon Quest X is bringing the online action to Japan on September 4, so Square Enix is here with a second introduction trailer. Dig into that along with a couple TV spots and a behind-the-scenes commercial video below.

While the animation production team is working busily on the upcoming Fate/stay night at Ufotable, the ufotable cafes around Japan with licensed goods sales have posted their newest item! Following the seasonal theme, a Japanese summer staple in S...

The official website for the upcoming Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends movie has uploaded a full trailer. The movie will premier in Japanese theaters on September 13, 2014. The movie is based on popular manga series Rurouni Kenshin which is writte...

Top Vocaloid tunesmith Hachioji-P has a new LP slated for release next week in Japan in the form of &ldquo;Twinkle World&rdquo;, a collection of 14 songs from the Cypton Future Media stable of virtual singers.

Kamen Rider Gaim is almost over, but Bandai is not yet done with the show's Lock Seed toyline! It is revealed that the Rider Lock Seed series will still continue, and this time it will feature the Showa Riders, Rider 1 to J.

"Road of Thorns" I knew "Road of Thorns" was going to pack quite the emotional punch, but the anime adaptation certainly didn't disappoint. It's easy to see why Nagahama-sensei had originally planned to end the first season of "Zoku Shou" with thi...

In the final episode of the second season of Love Live! School Idol Project, there was an announcement that a movie is in the works. Now, it has been revealed that the upcoming anime film is slated to premiere in spring 2015.

It's now less than two weeks away from the September 3rd Japanese release of the ninth and final volume of Kill La Kill home video, with its accompanying OVA episode. To promote this, an early look at this last collection's packaging has been post...

「It's cliché, but so what? 」 We have a pretty dense episode this week–so dense, in fact, that we had to cut out the OP. Good thing we still had time for Marie's bad emo poetry; I don't know what I'd have without it.

'Hunter X Hunter' Anime Gets Formal End Episode Posted by Chris Beveridge August 21, 2014 at 10:36 PM Hunter x Hunter After having the voice actress for Gon in Hunter X Hunter talk about wrapping production on the series and that it would be endin...

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